By Mary O’KEEFE Halloween is celebrated in Crescenta Valley with several traditions including the Spooktacular hosted by the Montrose Shopping Park and Nightmare in Whiting Woods where, for that last 17 years, local resident David Krohn has turned his home into a haunted house. It started at his home in Vista Court and the annual […]
“Listen! The wind is rising and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ~ Humbert Wolfe, 1885-1940 Italian-born British poet Early Monday morning the chiming and tingling of wind chimes announced the arrival of the Santa Ana winds. By 9 a.m. the temperature read 90 F; […]
Scary Times in the Valley Though politics and global warming – oops, climate change – can frighten the bravest of the brave, in Crescenta Valley we are approaching a time when even the most stalwart will feel a shiver travel up their spine. I’m talking Halloween. Halloween has a fascinating history (read Charly Shelton’s piece […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Wednesday, Oct. 18, local politicians took legislative steps to make the long-imagined Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act a reality. If adopted, the legislation would add more than 191,000 acres to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, protecting various parklands and wildlife-friendly areas, running from the Santa Susanas and […]
Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts Are Not The Answer This month, Congress began consideration of a new budget, which will set the stage for the debate of a major tax reform proposal. During the campaign and since his election, President Trump promised a tax reform plan that would benefit the average American and would not grow the […]
Tujunga Ghost Stories I’ve been writing the last few weeks on the origins of the names of the canyons on the north side of our valley and stories surrounding them. Let me take a short break from that in honor of Halloween, and I’ll relate a few ghost stories from Sunland-Tujunga. I recently picked up […]
By Vincent PAGE The dream season of the Crescenta Valley High School Falcons’ varsity football team came to an end on Friday night. They suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of the Burbank Bulldogs by a score of 37-20. The Falcons came into the game with a perfect 7-0 record. Burbank […]
Josefina López, the award-winning playwright, screenwriter and founding artistic director of CASA 0101 Theater, will host question and answer sessions after the Sunday, Nov. 5 and Nov. 12 performances of her new critically acclaimed play, “An Enemy of the Pueblo,” a modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” The Q&As will be […]
By Charly SHELTON Halloween is about pumpkins, ghosts, black cats and, most of all, witches. The holiday, like so many others, sprung out of a Celtic/Wiccan celebration. Samhain (pronounced SOW-win) is a festival of the harvest, the end of the Celtic year, and a time when the veil between the world of the living and […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY Dignity Health – Glendale Memorial Hospital held its annual Wine & Roses event at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena on Oct. 8. From the moment guests stepped through the doors of the elegant hotel, they were welcomed by event representatives including an adorable puppy that would be finding its forever home […]